Season 2, Episode 25: Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!

Drabbletober · Oct 25, 2025 · 1m

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.

Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is episode 25, season 2, for Saturday the twenty-fifth of October 2025. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your one-hundred word story for the day is:

Oooh, Look, Breadcrumbs!

by Elizabeth Guilt

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I was jamming my earbud back in when the world stopped.

His cloak was grey, mostly, with a greasy green-purple sheen. His boney face was pointed. In his hand, a sharp... Well, I didn't want to think about that.

"You're lucky," he said, voice softly bubbling.

"Lucky?" My bike lay crushed under a taxi, one wheel spinning…